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Of George Master of Angus, and sonne to Archbald the first.
HIs eldest son (as hath been said) was George slain at Flowdon, de∣signed commonly by the appellation of Master of Angus. He was married to Elizabeth Drummond, daughter to the Lord Drummond of whom we told how he defeated the Earle of Lennox.
His children by her were three sonnes. First Archbald, afterward Earle of Angus. Secondly Sir George of Pittendrich. Thirdly William Priour of Colding hame.
His daughters were, First the Lady Yester. Secondly the Lady Basse. Thirdly Jeane Lady Glames. Fourthly Alison, married first to Robert Blackader, of Blackader, and afterward to Sir David Hume of Wedder∣burne. Fifthly the Lady Drumlanerige, as I take it. Also they mention a sixth, married to a Baron in the North, whom they name not, neither do I know who he should be.
His age at his dea th (to reckon from the 15. year of his fathers age in the 1469. to the year of his own death at Flowdon 1513.) was not a∣bove 44.
His actions, because he never came to be Earle, are not recorded. Some dealing there was betwixt him as Governour of Liddisdale, and the Lord Dacres in England, with whose Deputies he agrees to meet at Dumfreis, for doing of Justice in the year 1489. the year after the King was killed* 1.1 at Bannock-burne. So at Cannabie he met with the Lord Dacres him∣self,* 1.2 where they accorded not well: For they intended both to send to the Councels of both Nations to have their determination of their dif∣ferences. He agrees the same year with Sir Robert Lundie of Bagonie, Trea∣surer for a generall remission to Ewsdalde, Eskdale, and Niddisdale, which I think should rather be Liddisdale, for a 1000. pounds, being at this time not above 20. years of age, not out of Curatorie by the Laws, though that was in his fathers hands. Yet we see also Courts held in his name, by his Bailiffs, as a retoure of Adam Ker, to some Lands in Selk∣rig, in the said year, which makes me to think he hath been then marri∣ed. Also he it is, as we told above, that excambes the Lands of Liddis∣dale for Bothwell with Patrick Earle Bothwell, resigning the Lands of Liddisdale, and the King disponing them upon the resignation in the year 1492. upon what reason either the Earle Bothwelshould have affected* 1.3 these, or he preferred the other, and not thought himself as fit to rule that unruly Countrey as any other, I have not heard. But it was done in his fathers life time, who was no fool when he was in his greatest vogue, the first three years of King James the fourth. He allies afterward with this same Earl Bothwel, marrying his sonne Archbald to his daughter, but that must be long after, except that he hath been married young, as some say he was.
In the year 1510. he indents for the marriage of his fourth daughter* 1.4 Alison to Robert Blackaders sonne, and apparent heir to Andrew Blackader